* He isn’t the first NHL player to do this. Dallas Stars player Adam Burish and Chicago Blackhawks player Patrick Kane dressed up as Dennis Rodman and Scottie Pippen (with darkened skin) for a 2009 party. A photo made the rounds on the internet and caused a stir. Neither offered an apology. “They shouldn’t have to,” Wyshynski writes, “and neither should Torres.”

* Torres is the NHL’s first player of Mexican and Peruvian descent and has been heckled in his past because of his heritage.